Kitchen - Before & After

There are just a few odds and ends to finish up, but we are pretty well done with the year long project to gutt and rehab the kitchen and hearth room.  It is beautiful, stunning and perfect for us!  I am so incredibly proud of David and so grateful for the endless hours of work by him, advice and help by my father and mother and tireless support by our dear friends.

BEFORE --- odd shaped cabinets and a little over 2feet of counterspace.  Ohhhhh and don't forget the 1950 burnt red stove!

AFTER --- beautiful cabinetry (thank you Uncle Robert for making these for us!) to match the cabinetry we put in the dining room the first year we moved in (2007).

(The Dining Room --- The transition and painting of the garage door is one of the last things we have left to do......so pretend that it looks finished!)

BEFORE --- Wall between the hearth room & the old kitchen

AFTER --- No wall, beautiful island instead.

BEFORE --- The wall between the kitchen & the dining room, closed in and boxy.   The wall between the hearth room and the living room/foyer --- wwwwaaaahhhhoooo the pretty paneling is gone :-)

AFTER --- open everywhere except the fireplace stack.   The fireplace is reversed into the living room (gas now instead of wood.  The basement fireplace remains wood).   The old fireplace side is now home to a TV.The island cap is actually the ash tree that we had removed from our back yard (Garrett is allergic to ash and it was wavering in the wind dangerously close to the house!)


BEFORE --- Useless hearth room --- aka a passthru to the boxy kitchen.  I dont have a picture of the back of the house probably because it was completely useless wall that we could never really use.

AFTER --- the left window was replaced by a slider to the deck that we put in 2010.  The right window was replaced by a shorter window so that there was enough room to put in base cabinets under the window.  Now the kitchen wraps in an L-shape around the island instead of the semi-galley layout.

 (Hanging the drapes is one that short list of things to still do.....so try to envision the drapes :-)!!)

I am still in amazement!  I catch myself just standing there staring at it thinking we are so lucky to be blessed with such a light open and comfortable space.